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Friday morning I went for a long walk to get a feel for the town. Here is a very typical Swiss scene. The Swiss are fanatical about cleanliness and one expression of that is to air the duvets every morning:

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Bench outside a house in Orbe centre. No squatting please:

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Emergency entrance:

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Later on Friday, we drove to the nearest bigger town, Yverdon, to walk around there, have lunch and do some shopping. One thing about Switzerland is that it is simply so pretty. You drive on a country road between two towns and suddenly a sight like this appears:

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The weather was nice, so we had lunch at an outdoor restaurant in Yverdon’s central square:

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Settling the bill:

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Small bike, big bike:

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While my wife shopped, I looked around in the crowded centre. This doggie was resting while its people had a drink:

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Buying a steak in Switzerland is not a purchase; it is an investment (for reference, 1$=1.05 CHF and 1â‚¬=1.35 CHF):

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In the afternoon, we drove back to Orbe to pick up our son and go for dinner in Lausanne to celebrate our 27th wedding anniversary:

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We had dinner at a restaurant on the shore of Lake Geneva:

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We had decided to spend the weekend at Zermatt, a place where one can ski also in the summer (on a glacier). Unfortunately, the closer we got to Zermatt the worse the weather. Our hotel balcony looks nice enough:

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The reality looked more like this–the main street in Zermatt as seen from our balcony:

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We were not really hungry, so lunch was purchased from this gentleman:

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And it was not bad at all:

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Despite the weather, people were out and about. The glacier was closed due to poor visibility, so skiing was not possible, but that did not stop hikers, mountain bikers and just ordinary people walking around: